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Environmental policies
Environmental policies
Hawaii raises visitor tax to fund environmental protection and climate resilience
Hawaii raises its visitor tax to 11% to protect nature and address climate risks, with total lodging taxes nearing 19% from 2026
Editorial Team•29 May 2025
Policy and Affairs
EU opens consultations on new ecodesign…
The European Commission launches four calls for evidence on ecodesign and labeling…
Editorial Team•27 May 2025
Policy and Affairs
Beyond the Omnibus: will the EU…
The EU may ease energy bureaucracy rules to support businesses and improve…
Editorial Team•12 May 2025
Policy and Affairs
WBA: only 5% of enterprises are attentive to the environmental impacts
The index on the environmental impacts of business activities developed by the World Benchmarking Alliance’s (WBA),…
13 December 2022
Policy and Affairs
London will open its 1st coal mine in 30 years
After months of multi-level assessments and protests, the government gave the green light to the project…
12 December 2022
Policy and Affairs
Biden’s IRA can trigger US-EU trade war
The American Inflation Reduction Act provides subsidies and tax advantages for those who buy American and…
7 December 2022
Policy and Affairs
Agreement on the Oil price cap to 60 $, but remains the…
To work, the price cap must be below the Ural market price but not too much,…
6 December 2022
Policy and Affairs
Bolsonaro’s legacy: Record-breaking deforestation in Brazil since 2019
The last year recorded a relatively positive figure, with deforestation falling by 11%. But the balance…
2 December 2022
Policy and Affairs
Renewable energy, France will pay dearly for its delay
The country is the only one in the bloc not to have achieved its 2020 targets…
30 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Vietnam boosts coal and rejects 14 billion to reduce dependency
The Vietnamese government assumes new energy targets in 2030 where coal rises and the share of…
29 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
With the Sharm Implementation Plan, COP27 will increase emissions
The text lacks a reference to the phasing out of all fossil fuels and a commitment…
22 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Here is the Global Shield: so the G7 “ensures” climate finance
Insurance, not compensation. Nor subsidies. The initiative led by Germany marks a point for the richest…
18 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Bali G20 saves 1.5 degrees but does not make progress on climate
On climate, the Indonesian-led G20 final communiqué repeats that - diluted of the original ambition -…
17 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
From the UN, global guidelines to create policies toward net-zero emissions
The United Nations body responsible for establishing international standards, ISO, has submitted to COP27 a document…
14 November 2022
Policy and Affairs
Businesses, banks and cities all too often lie about net-zero goals
"Too many promises of climate neutrality are little more than empty slogans and announcements," says former…
11 November 2022
Environmental policies
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